CVE-2020-1721

Publication date 30 April 2021

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in the Key Recovery Authority (KRA) Agent Service in pki-core 10.10.5 where it did not properly sanitize the recovery ID during a key recovery request, enabling a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could trick an authenticated victim into executing specially crafted Javascript code.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
dogtag-pki	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
dogtag-pki	Upstream: https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/434/commits/73e84624891ab2018286e076d7c683b484bff4ff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N